RED HAW (Crakegus coccinoides, Ashe). 10 to e5 feet. Handsome, thrifty tree, with round dome of stout branches. Thorns 14 to e inches long, stout, straight, reddish purple. Bark dark brown, scaly; twigs red, smooth. Leaves broadly ovate, doubly serrate, acutely lobed above the middle, 4 to 3 inches long, polished, yellow-green above, at first, becoming dark and dull; turning orange and scarlet. Stems red. Flow
ers in May, in crowded corymbs, white, large; stamens 20, with large, rosy anthers; styles 5. Fruit in October, in dense, erect clusters, the pomes flattened, globular, lustrous, dark red, with pale dots; flesh thick, red, acid. Dist.: Dry woods. St. Louis, Missouri, to eastern, Kansas.